Barrel



Nu. 6I5,530 Patented Dec. 6, I898. '0. H. P. CORNELL.

BARREL.

(Application filed Dec. 10, 1897 .1 (No Model.)

m: norms Farms 99 Pnqro-u'mo, WASHINGYON n c UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

OLIVER II. P. CORNELL, OF HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA.

BARREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 615,530, dated December6, 1898. .Annlication filed December 10, 1897- Serial No. 661,406. (lIomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER H. P. CORNELL, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Harrisonburg, in the county of Rockingham and Stateof Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBarrels; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to barrels, and has for its object the constructionof barrels which can be crated and shipped at small expense and puttogether or set up wherever it is desired to use them without theemployment of skilled labor; and it consists in certain improvements inconstruction which will be fully disclosed in the followingspecification and claims.

In the accompanying drawings,which form part of this specification,Figure 1 represents an elevation showing the outside of the staves of abarrel connected to hoops; Fig. 2, aperspective view of a barrel; Fig.3, a transverse section of part of a barrel on an enlarged scale; Fig.4, a side view of a modification of the locking-hook on one end of thehoops, and Fig. 5 a section through one of the staves.

Reference being had to the drawings and the letters thereon, A indicatesthe staves of the barrel,which are preferably provided with straightparallel sides beveled inwardly to form av circular body and provided attheir ends with the ordinary croze (not shown) to receive the heads 13of the barrel.

0 indicates the hoops, preferably made of wire, secured to each stave bymeans of staples a,which form loops over the hoops and in which thehoops are free to move or slide, so that the slack of the entire lengthof the hoops may be taken up and the staves drawn closely together andthe ends of the hoops i11- terlocked and securely fastened together. Oneend of the hoops is provided with an elongated loop 1), formed in thewire and the end twisted or wrapped about the hoop adjacent to the loopto form a collar 17, and the opposite end is provided with a hook 0,provided with a plurality of teeth (1, and the hook may be made of thewire of the hoop, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, or it may be made of aseparate piece of sheet metal c with teeth f formed in it, as shown inFig. 4:, and one end of the hoop G secured thereto by a loop 19 Theheads B, only one of which is shown, may be made in'one or in severalpieces 9 h t, properly secured together by a batten 7s and small nails1, which will admit of the pieces of the head being drawn togethershould they become separated by shrinkage of the wood or from any othercause by the upper and lower hoops of the barrel.

D indicates a lever having a claw Z], which engages the hoop 0 back ofthe collar 1) adjacent to the loop I), and is provided with an arm 112,having a hook at at its outer end,which engages a tooth of the hook c onthe hoop and by which the hoop is drawn taut, and the loop I) is thenengaged with one of the teeth (1 of the hook c, which lies in closeengagement with the surface of the barrel to prevent interferencetherewith in handling the barrel.

The barrel thus constructed may be prepared in rough shops in the woodsor forest, packed in large quantities for shipment on cars or vehicles,and conveyed to where they are to be used,when the parts may beassembled and the barrel completed by unskilled labor, thereby causinggreat saving in the expense of hauling.

After a barrel has been used it may be knocked down and returned forrefilling at very small cost.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is- 1. Animproved article of manufacture, a barrel composed of staves and aplurality of hoops provided with interlocking ends,one of said endshaving an elongated loop and a collar adjacent to the loop formed bytwisting the wire around the hoop, said loop and collar being integralwith the hoop and the opposite end of the hoop provided with a serratedhook, and loops connecting the hoops to the staves to slide thereon.

2 An improved article of manufacture, a knockdown barrel composed ofstaves anda plurality of hoops, each hoop having a loop at one endintegral therewith and a collar adjacent thereto and a serrated hookattached to the opposite end of the hoop byaloop, the

hoops connected to the staves to slide thereon by loops on the staves,and the hooks in contact with the surface of the barrel.

3. A barrel provided with Wire hoops having a loop and a collar adjacentthereto and integral with the hoop at one end thereof, and a serratedhook attached to the opposite end of the hoop by a loop, and loops toconnect the hoops to the staves to slide thereon; in

combination with a lever having a claw, and 10 an arm attached to thelever and having a hook at the outer end thereof.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OLIVER H. P. CORNELL. lVitnesses:

D. O. REINOHL, D. WEIMER REINoHL.

